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14321 Jinyoung Kim
Seonghoon Kim
Kanghyock Koh
Labor Market Institutions and the Incidence of Payroll Taxation
Despite unambiguous predictions of the canonical model of a competitive labor market, empirical studies on the labor market effects of payroll taxation provide conflicting evidence. Our meta-analysis ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 209, 104646)
H24, I31, J22
14320 Benjamin Elsner
Ingo E. Isphording
Ulf Zölitz
Achievement Rank Affects Performance and Major Choices in College
This paper studies how a student's ordinal rank in a peer group affects performance and specialisation choices in university. By exploiting data with repeated random assignment of students to ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2021, 640 (131), 3182 - 3206.)
I21, J16, J31
14315 Hai-Anh H Dang
Paul Glewwe
Khoa Vu
Jongwook Lee
What Explains Vietnam's Exceptional Performance in Education Relative to Other Countries? Analysis of the 2012 and 2015 Pisa Data
Despite being the poorest or second poorest participant, Vietnam performed much better than all other developing countries, and even ahead of wealthier countries such as the U.S. and the U.K., on the ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2023, 96, 102434.)
H0, I2, O1, P3
14313 David C. Ribar
Ross Rubenstein
Gaining, Losing, and Regaining Merit-Based Scholarships
Georgia offers two merit-based scholarships to in-state college students: HOPE Scholarships, which provide partial tuition support, and Zell Miller Scholarships, which provide full tuition support ...
(published in: Education Finance and Policy, 2023, 18 (4), 597–622)
I22
14311 Vasiliki Fouka
Marco Tabellini
Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the US
How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent ...
(published as ' American Political Science Review Article contents Abstract References Changing In-Group Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the United States' in: American Political Science Review. 2022, 116 (3), 968-984.)
J11, J15
14310 Bin Huang
Massimiliano Tani
Yu Zhu
Does Higher Education Make You More Entrepreneurial? Causal Evidence from China
Using the 2017 China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), we estimate the effect of higher education on entrepreneurship for prime-aged males. We distinguish between own-account workers and employers of ...
(published in: Journal of Business Research, 2021, 135, 543-558. )
I25, J24, L26
14309 Giacomo Damioli
Vincent Van Roy
Daniel Vertesy
Marco Vivarelli
May AI Revolution Be Labour-Friendly? Some Micro Evidence from the Supply Side
This study investigates the possible job-creation impact of AI technologies, focusing on the supply side, namely the providers of the new knowledge base. The empirical analysis is based on a ...
(published as 'Drivers of the evolution of employment in AI innovators' in: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2024, 201, 123249)
O33
14308 Duha T. Altindag
Naci Mocan
Jie Zhang
Freedom of Speech, Deterrence, and Compellence in the Parliament
In most countries Parliamentary immunity protects lawmakers from civil or criminal charges while in office, and it shields them from prosecution for their political speech or political actions. This ...
(published as 'Deterrence and Compellence in Parliament' in: Journal of Law & Economics, 2023, 66 (2), Article 5. )
P16, K40, D72, H0
14307 Shyamal Chowdhury
Varun Satish
Munshi Sulaiman
Yi Sun
Sooner Rather Than Later: Social Networks and Technology Adoption
Using data from a randomised experiment in Kenya, we estimate the causal effect of social networks on technology adoption. In this experiment, farmers were invited to information sessions about the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2022, 203, 466-482)
O12, P36, Z13
14306 Ying Shi
Maria Zhu
Equal Time for Equal Crime? Racial Bias in School Discipline
Well-documented racial disparities in rates of exclusionary discipline may arise from differences in hard-to-observe student behavior or bias, in which treatment for the same behavior varies by ...
(published in: Economics of Education Review, 2022, 88, 102256)
I24, J15
14305 Sonali Rakshit
Soham Sahoo
Biased Teachers and Gender Gap in Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India
We investigate the effect of stereotypical beliefs of teachers on the learning outcomes of secondary school students in India. We measure teacher’s bias through an index capturing teacher’s ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 161, 103041)
I24, J16, J24
14304 Johannes Abeler
Armin Falk
Fabian Kosse
Malleability of Preferences for Honesty
Reporting private information is a key part of economic decision making. A recent literature has found that many people have a preference for honest reporting, contrary to usual economic assumptions. ...
(published online in: Economic Journal, 22 May 2024)
C90, D90, D64, D82, H26, J13
14301 Sarah Brown
Alessandro Bucciol
Alberto Montagnoli
Karl Taylor
Financial Advice and Household Financial Portfolios
We investigate the role of financial advice in shaping the composition of household portfolios in Great Britain. Advice is associated with a reallocation of wealth away from real estate and towards ...
(published in: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2025, 87 (2), 382-413.)
D81, G11, D14
14300 Paul Bingley
Lorenzo Cappellari
Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Parental Assortative Mating and the Intergenerational Transmission of Human Capital
We study the contribution of parental similarity in schooling levels to the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. We develop an empirical model for educational correlations within ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 77, 102047)
I24, J62
14299 Joan Costa-Font
Luca Salmasi
Sarah Zaccagni
More Than a Ban on Smoking? Behavioural Spillovers of Smoking Bans in the Workplace
Are workplace smoking bans (WSBs) more than a ban on smoking? We study whether WSBs influence smoking cessation and exert behavioural spillover effects on (i) a number of health behaviours, and (ii) ...
(published in: Economics and Human Biology, 2025, 58, 101512)
I18, H75, L51
14298 Zsuzsa Blaskó
Patricia da Costa
Sylke V. Schnepf
Learning Loss and Educational Inequalities in Europe: Mapping the Potential Consequences of the COVID-19 Crisis
It is widely discussed that the pandemic has impacted on educational inequalities across the world. However, in contrast to data on health or unemployment, data on education outcomes are not timely. ...
(revised version publlished in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2022, 32 (4), 361-375)
I24
14296 Jonas Jessen
Daniel Kühnle
Markus Wagner
Downstream Effects of Voting on Turnout and Political Preferences: Long-Run Evidence from the UK
Does voting have downstream consequences for turnout and political preferences? While research initially showed strong support for the notion that the experience of voting fosters civic habits and ...
(revised version published as 'Long-Run Effects of Earlier Voting Eligibility on Turnout and Political Involvement' in: Journal of Politics, 2024, 86 (3), 1045–1059)
D01, D70, D72
14295 Daniel Da Mata
Lucas Emanuel
Vitor Pereira
Breno Sampaio
Climate Adaptation Policies and Infant Health: Evidence from a Water Policy in Brazil
This paper studies how in utero exposure to a large-scale climate adaptation program affects birth outcomes. The program built around one million cisterns in Brazil's poorest and driest region to ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 220, 104835)
Q54, Q58, Q25, I15
14294 Björn Anders Gustafsson
Ludmila Nivorozhkina
Haiyuan Wan
Working Beyond the Normal Retirement Age in Urban China and Urban Russia
The incidence of working for earnings beyond the normal pension age of 55 for females and 60 for males in urban China and Russia is investigated using micro-data for 2002, 2013, and 2018. Estimated ...
(published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2021, 12 (1))
E24, J14, J26, J3, P52
14293 Daniel Kühnle
Michael Oberfichtner
Kerstin Ostermann
Revisiting Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households: A Cautionary Tale on the Potential Pitfalls of Density Estimators
We show that Bertrand et al.'s (QJE 2015) finding of a sharp drop in the relative income distribution within married couples at the point where wives start to earn more than their husbands is ...
(published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2021, 36 (7), 1065-1073.)
C14, C18, D10, J16
14292 D. Mark Anderson
Daniel I. Rees
The Public Health Effects of Legalizing Marijuana
Thirty-six states have legalized medical marijuana and 14 states have legalized the use of marijuana for recreational purposes. In this paper, we review the literature on the public health ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Literature, 2023, 61 (1), 86-143.)
I1, H7, K42
14290 John T. Addison
Paulino Teixeira
Worker Commitment and Establishment Performance
Using a cross section of matched data from the employee and management questionnaires of the European Company Survey, this paper investigates the determinants of worker commitment and the potential ...
(revised version published as 'Worker Commitment and Establishment Performance in Europe' in: Manchester School, 2024, 92 (1), 40-66.)
J20, J50
14287 Andrew Leigh
Adam Triggs
Common Ownership of Competing Firms: Evidence from Australia
We provide the first estimates of the extent of common ownership of competing firms in Australia. Combining data on market shares and substantial shareholdings, we calculate the impact of common ...
(published in: Economic Record, 2021, 97 (318), 333-349 )
L11, L12, D42, D43
14284 Michael Gibbs
Tim Perri
Dodging a Draft: Gary Becker's Lost Paper on Conscription
Gary Becker wrote what may be the first economic analysis of conscription. Less than a decade later, economists played a key role in an important public policy debate during the Vietnam War, which ...
(published in: Willieam Taylor (ed.), The All-Volunteer Force: Fifty Years of History, University of Kansas Press, 2023)
M5
14283 David Card
Ana Rute Cardoso
Wage Flexibility under Sectoral Bargaining
Sectoral contracts in many European countries set wage floors for different occupation groups. In addition, employers often pay a wage premium (or wage cushion) to individual workers. We use ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2022, 20 (5), 2062 - 2097)
J31, J41, J51
14282 Tony Fang
Morley Gunderson
Byron Lee
Can Older Workers Be Retrained? Canadian Evidence from Worker-Firm Linked Data
Based on Statistics Canada's worker-firm matched Workplace and Employee Survey, our econometric analysis indicated that the average probability of receiving training was 9.3 percentage points higher ...
(published in: Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations, 2021, 76 (3), 429-453.)
J14, J18, J24
14281 Onur Altindag
Bilge Erten
Pinar Keskin
Mental Health Costs of Lockdowns: Evidence from Age-Specific Curfews in Turkey
Using a strict, age-specific lockdown order for adults aged 65 and older in Turkey, we examine the mental health consequences of an extended period of tight mobility restrictions on senior adults. ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 320–343)
I18, I31, O15
14280 Kari Dalane
Dave E. Marcotte
Charter Schools and the Segregation of Students by Income
The segregation of students by socioeconomic status has been on the rise in American public education between schools during the past several decades. Recent work has demonstrated that segregation is ...
(published online in: Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 13 February 2023 )
I24, I28, I21
14278 Robert Duval Hernández
By Choice or by Force? Exploring the Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico
Using a special module of the 2015 Mexican Labour Force Survey with information on workers' preferences for jobs with social security coverage, I estimate that 80 per cent of informal workers in ...
(published as 'Choices and Constraints: The Nature of Informal Employment in Urban Mexico' in: Journal of Development Studies, 2022, 58 (7), 1349-1362)
O17
14275 Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
Do Parents Expect Too Much or Is It All about Grades? The Discrepancy between Parents' Aspirations and Child's Academic Performance, and Parental Satisfaction with the School
Schooling is related to health and future labor market outcomes. The school parents choose for their children often depends on feedback received from other parents. Therefore it is important to ...
(published in: Cogent Economics and Finance, 2022, 10 (1), 2079178)
J01, J13, I21, I31, D10
14274 Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
The Effect of Child Benefits on Financial Difficulties and Spending Habits: Evidence from Poland's Family 500+ Program
In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500+ program which provides cash transfers to families with two or more children, and ...
(published in: International Economics and Economic Policy, 2022, 19, 719 - 739)
I38, D10, P46, J13
14273 Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
Job Loss and Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nutritious eating habits contribute to a stronger immune system necessary for prevention and easier recovery from illnesses. A job loss, experienced by millions of Americans during the Covid-19 ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2023, 50 (2), 300-323)
J63, J60, I19, D12
14272 Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
The Effect of a Health and Economic Shock on the Gender, Ethnic and Racial Gap in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from COVID-19
With more than 29 million confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the U.S. and 119 million cases worldwide, the pandemic has affected companies, households and the global economy. We explore the effect of ...
(updated version published as 'The Effect of Covid-19 as an Economic Shock on the Gender and Ethnic Gap in Labor Market Outcomes' in: Studies in Microeconomics, 2021, 9 (2), 227–255)
J70, J71, J01, J15, J23
14271 Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
The Effect of Parental and Grandparental Supervision Time Investment on Children's Early-Age Development
This article explores the impact of grandparents' supervision time input relative to the effect of parents' childcare provision on children's cognitive, social and behavioral development at an early ...
(published in: Research in Economics, 2021, 75 (3), 286 - 304)
J12, J13, J01, I21, I10, C33
14270 Stefani Milovanska-Farrington
Stephen Farrington
Happiness, Domains of Life Satisfaction, Perceptions, and Valuation Differences Across Genders
Happiness is strongly associated with goal attainment, productivity, mental health and suicidal risk. This paper examines the effect of satisfaction with areas of life on subjective well-being (SWB), ...
(published in: Acta Psychologica, 2022, 230, 103720)
D60, I31, J16, D03
14269 Allan Webster
Sangeeta Khorana
Francesco Pastore
The Labour Market Impact of COVID-19: Early Evidence for a Sample of Enterprises from Southern Europe
This study uses evidence from World Bank enterprise surveys of a sample of firms from six countries in Southern Europe. It examines the early evidence of the effects of Covid-19 on labour markets. ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (4), 1054 - 1082)
I18, J23, J28, J65
14268 Alexander Mosthaf
Thorsten Schank
Stefan Schwarz
Do Supplementary Jobs for Welfare Recipients Increase the Chance of Welfare Exit? Evidence from Germany
Welfare recipients in Germany are allowed to take up supplementary jobs while receiving welfare. The possibility of having a supplementary job was introduced to reduce welfare dependency and ...
(published in: Industrial Relations, 2024, 63 (3), 291-324)
C33, J60, I38
14267 Doğu Tan Aracı
Murat Demirci
Murat Güray Kirdar
Development Level of Hosting Areas and the Impact of Refugees on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes
We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting areas, which has important implications for the optimal allocation of refugees ...
(published in: European Economic Review, 2022, 145, 104132.)
J61, O15, F22, R23, R58
14265 Amit Loewenthal
Sami H. Miaari
Anke Hoeffler
Aid and Radicalization: The Case of Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza
In this paper we study how radical political factions secure support. In order to achieve their objective of gaining support, radical political factions can choose from a number of specific ...
(published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2023, 59 (8), 1187–1212. )
D72, D74, H56
14263 Takashi Kurosaki
Saumik Paul
Firman Witoelar
Out of Communal Land: Clientelism through Delegation of Agricultural Tenancy Contracts
Do local institutions influence the nature of political clientelist exchange? We find a positive answer in the context of a village institution prevalent in Java since the Dutch colonial rule, where ...
(published as 'In pursuit of power: Land tenancy contracts and local political business cycles in Indonesia' in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2024, 227, 106764)
D72, H77, H83, O17, O18
14261 George J. Borjas
Anthony Edo
Gender, Selection into Employment, and the Wage Impact of Immigration
Immigrant supply shocks are typically expected to reduce the wage of comparable workers. Natives may respond to the lower wage by moving to markets that were not directly targeted by immigrants and ...
(forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2026)
E24, F22, J21, J23
14258 Emmanouil Benetos
Alessandro Ragano
Daniel Sgroi
Anthony Tuckwell
Measuring National Life Satisfaction with Music
National life satisfaction is an important way to measure societal well-being and since 2011 has been used to judge the effectiveness of government policy across the world. However, there is a ...
(published as 'Measuring national mood with music: using machine learning to construct a measure of national valence from audio data' in: Behavior Research Methods, 2022, 54, 3085–3092 )
C8, N3, N4, O1, D6
14257 David Ronayne
Daniel Sgroi
Anthony Tuckwell
Evaluating the Sunk Cost Effect
We provide experimental evidence of behavior consistent with the sunk cost effect. Subjects who earned a lottery via a real-effort task were given an opportunity to switch to a dominant lottery; 23% ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021, 186, 318 - 327)
D91, C83, C90
14255 Akin A. Cilekoglu
Rosina Moreno
Raul Ramos
The Impact of Robot Adoption on Global Sourcing
This paper studies the impact of robot adoption on firms' global sourcing activities. Using a rich panel dataset of Spanish manufacturing firms, we show that robot adopting firms increased their ...
(published in: Research Policy, 2024, 53 (3), 104953)
F14, F23, L23
14253 Sarah Dong
Mathias Sinning
Trying to Make a Good First Impression: A Natural Field Experiment to Engage New Entrants to the Tax System
Very little is known about the compliance behavior of first-time taxpayers although their tax paying habits may affect the long-run functioning of a tax system. This paper studies the compliance ...
(published in: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 2022, 100, 101900)
C93, H25, H26
14252 Mathias Sinning
Yinjunjie (Jacquelyn) Zhang
Social Norms or Enforcement? A Natural Field Experiment to Improve Traffic and Parking Fine Compliance
Very little is known about the efficient collection of fines despite their indispensable contribution to local government budgets. This paper fills an important gap in the literature by studying the ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2023, 210, 43-60)
H26, K42, C93
14247 Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes
Agnese Romiti
International Student Applications in the United Kingdom after Brexit
On June 23, 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. We examine how this decision (henceforth, Brexit) has impacted international student applications in the United ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2024, 24 (5), 637–662, )
F22, I20, O15, I28, J61
14246 Jan Marcus
Thomas Siedler
Nicolas R. Ziebarth
The Long-Run Effects of Sports Club Vouchers for Primary School Children
Starting in 2009, the German state of Saxony distributed sports club membership vouchers among all 33,000 third graders in the state. The policy's objective was to encourage them to develop a ...
(published in: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2022, 14 (3), 128-165)
I12, I14, I18, I28, I38, Z28, H71
14244 Michal Myck
Monika Oczkowska
Izabela Wowczko
Gender Preferences in Central and Eastern Europe as Reflected in Partnership and Fertility Outcomes
The decisions of parents following the birth of their first child concerning subsequent fertility, and the stability of their relationship can be used as a reflection of broader gender preferences. ...
(revised version published as 'Parental gender preferences in Central and Eastern Europe and differential early life disadvantages' in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2024, 32 (1), 237–263)
J13, J16
14243 Yatang Lin
Thomas K. J. McDermott
Guy Michaels
Cities and the Sea Level
Construction on low elevation coastal zones is risky for both residents and taxpayers who bail them out, especially when sea levels are rising. We study this construction using spatially ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2024, 143, 103685)
R11, Q54, R14
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